Ubuntu
flashplugin-nonfree package

  1. Bug #125986
  2. Comment #48

Comment 48 for bug 125986

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Alexander Sack (asac) wrote : Re: [Bug 125986] Re: [MASTER] No flash after update of flashplugin-nonfree

On Sun, Aug 05, 2007 at 09:00:09PM -0000, shanen (Shannon Jacobs) wrote:
> No, the md5sum error went away after the manual editing of the
> sources.list file.
>
> The about:plugins returns the following information, which seems to show
> that a version of the Flash plugin is now installed--but I'm pretty sure
> this is an old version and that Adobe is currently at 8 or 9? I'm quite
> hesitant to start mangling my Ubuntu with non-approved software from
> sources I don't much trust. (Yeah, Adobe, I'm talking about you.)
>
> Shockwave Flash
>
> File name: libflashplayer.so
> Shockwave Flash 7.0 r68
>
> MIME Type Description Suffixes Enabled
> application/x-shockwave-flash Shockwave Flash swf Yes
> application/futuresplash FutureSplash Player spl Yes

Yes you are right ... your firefox has the old flash player.

Look in the directory $HOME/.mozilla/plugins/ and check if there is
any libflashplayer.so/flashplayer.xpt file in there. If so, just
delete those files and see if restarting firefox brings you the
flashplayer actually installed through ubuntu ... which should be
flash 9 if you are on feisty or gutsy.

 - Alexander